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Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games
«1951
1959»

The Swimming competition at the 2nd Pan American Games was held in Mexico City, Mexico during the Games' run in 1955. It consisted of 16 long course (50m) events: 8 for males and 8 for females.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Results

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Clarke Scholes
  United States USA
57.7 George Park
  Canada Canada
58.7 Carl Woolley
  United States USA
59.3
400 Freestyle
  details
Jimmy McLane
  United States USA
4:51.3 Wayne Moore
  United States USA
4:53.4 Oscar Kramer
  Argentina Argentina
4:56.1
1500 Freestyle
  details
Jimmy McLane
  United States USA
20:04.0 Oscar Kramer
  Argentina Argentina
20:09.9 Gilberto Arango
  Colombia Colombia
20:37.2
100 Backstroke
  details
Frank McKinney
  United States USA
1:07.1 Pedro Galvao
  Argentina Argentina
1:07.8 Leonide "Buddy" Baarcke
  United States USA
1:07.9
200 Breaststroke
  details
Héctor Domínguez
  Argentina Argentina
2:46.9 Manuel Sanguily
  Cuba Cuba
2:47.3 Walter Ocampo
  Mexico Mexico
2:50.7
200 Butterfly
  details
Eulalio Ríos
  Mexico Mexico
2:39.8 Walter Ocampo
  Mexico Mexico
2:40.3 William Yorzyk
  United States USA
2:42.5
4×200
 Free Relay
  details
 United States
  Martin Smith
  William Yorzyk
  Wayne Moore
  Jimmy McLane
9:00.0  Argentina
  Pedro Galvão
  Federico Zwanck
  José Izaguirre
  Jorge Vogt
9:09.0  Canada
  George Park
  Allen Gilchrist
  Gerry McNamee
  Ted Simpson
9:12.2
4×100
 Medley Relay
  details
 United States
  Frank McKinney
  Fred Maguire
  Leonide Baarcke
  Clark Scholes
4:29.1  Argentina
  Pedro Galvão
  Héctor Domínguez
  Orlando Cossani
  Federico Zwanck
4:33.4  Mexico
  Clemente Mejía
  Walter Ocampo
  Eulalio Ríos
  Otilio Holguin
4:35.5

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 Freestyle
  details
Helen Stewart
  Canada Canada
1:07.7 Wanda Werner
  United States USA
1:07.7 Virginia Grant
  Canada Canada
1:08.3
200 Freestyle
  details
Wanda Werner
  United States USA
2:32.5 Liliana Gonzalias
  Argentina Argentina
2:32.9 Gilda Aranda
  Mexico Mexico
2:33.6
400 Freestyle
  details
Beth Whittall
  Canada Canada
5:32.4 Carolyn Green
  United States USA
5:34.7 Carol Tait
  United States USA
5:34.9
100 Backstroke
  details
Leonore Fisher
  Canada Canada
1:16.7 Coralie O'Connor
  United States USA
1:17.8 Cynthia Gill
  United States USA
1:17.9
200 Breaststroke
  details
Mary Lou Elsenius
  United States USA
3:08.4 Mary Jane Sears
  United States USA
3:09.0 Beatriz Rohde
  Argentina Argentina
3:09.4
100 Butterfly
  details
Beth Whittall
  Canada Canada
1:16.2 Betty Brey
  United States USA
1:16.5 Shelley Mann
  United States USA
1:17.7
4×100
 Free Relay
  details
 United States
  Wanda Werner
  Carolyn Green
  Gretchen Kluter
  Judith Roberts
4:31.8  Canada
  Helen Stewart
  Gladys Priestley
  Virginia Grant
  Beth Whittall
4:38.1  Argentina
  Liliana Gonzalias
  Ana María Schultz
  Eileen Holt
  Cristina Kujath
4:43.7
4×100
 Medley Relay
  details
 United States
  Coralie O'Connor
  Mary Jane Sears
  Betty Brey
  Wanda Werner
5:11.6  Canada
  Helen Stewart
  Lenora Fisher
  Virginia Grant
  Beth Whittall
5:12.2  Argentina
  Liliana Gonzalias
  Vanna Rocco
  Eileen Holt
  Beatríz Rohde
5:30.5

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States106622
2 Canada4329
3 Argentina15410
4 Mexico1135
5 Cuba0101
6 Colombia0011
Totals (6 entries)16161648

References

  1. ^ "Pan American Games: Men's Swimming Medalists". HickokSports.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05.
  2. ^ "Swimming". Sports123.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  3. ^ "Pan American Games swimming medalists - Male". BestSwimming.com.br (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  4. ^ "Pan American Games swimming medalists - Female". BestSwimming.com.br (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  5. ^ "Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving". gbrathletics.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
  6. ^ "Pan American Games swimming medalists" (PDF). ISHOF.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-25.
  7. ^ Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos (in Portuguese). Editora Planeta. ISBN 8576652803.
  8. ^ Olderr, Steven (2009). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786443367. ISBN 9780786443369.